UNDER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL — After three years of sweat and toil, Philippe Cozette tunneled into history one wintry day in 1990, using a compressed air drill to power through the last chunk of chalk ...

On Nov. 14, 1994, the 31-mile Channel Tunnel under the English Channel opened to passenger traffic between England and France ...

Back in 1751, a Frenchman named Nicolas Desmarests had an idea. Wouldn`t it be grand, he said, to build a tunnel beneath the English Channel? The channel tunnel is an idea that`s been a long time ...

CALAIS, France--I'm sitting in a train doing something more than 265 million people have done before--enter the Chunnel for a crossing between France and England. But I've got a seat very few of them ...

LONDON -- Britain and France scrambled Wednesday to address the latest refugee crisis in Europe after hundreds of foreigners from Africa and the Middle East attempted for a second-consecutive night to ...

They’ve been talking about it for nearly 200 years, and now they say they’re really going to do it. Work on the “chunnel” (a tunnel under the English Channel) is supposed to start next year, and ...

The Eurostar high-speed train completed its first commercial journey through the tunnel under the English Channel on Monday – a hitch-free trip to Paris in less than three hours. It even arrived three ...

What a difference a 31-mile tunnel will make between England and France. Travelers soon will be able to enter an airline-style terminal in Paris’ Gare du Nord or London’s Waterloo Station, slip their ...

CALAIS, France--I'm sitting in a train doing something more than 265 million people have done before--enter the Chunnel for a crossing between France and England. But I've got a seat very few of them ...

Test your geography smarts with this quiz: Q: The Channel Tunnel, or “Chunnel,” is: (A) 18 miles long; (B) 31.4 miles; (C) 52.5 miles. (B) The “Chunnel” beneath the English Channel’s Strait of Dover ...